> I understand that mobile OSes need to change somewhat generation to generation as we’re still scratching around to figure out what works and what doesn’t.
...do we though? The iPhone came out more than a decade ago now, and I feel like we got it pretty darn figured out around 2015 or so.
Newer versions of iOS have brought some improvements, but also a lot of miss-steps, and performance decreases on older devices (the only place you'd notice).
The current versions of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 having obvious and frequently encountered rendering bugs in safari. If they let this out to users your expectation that they’ll allow the user experience to interfere with their awesomeness is surely going to be unfulfilled.
Not to mention those stupid flashlight and camera buttons on the iPhone lock screen whose only explanation is some manager somewhere wanted to make their mark.
On my xr it's much quicker to get to either of them through control center than holding the button for two seconds. And the way that they are placed, about 15% of the time when I pick up my phone gripping it front-back rather than side-side I activate one of those two things unintentionally.
Plus the trailing edge triggered nature of them is annoying.
It's also anti-user that they can't be disabled/removed per the user's preference.
...do we though? The iPhone came out more than a decade ago now, and I feel like we got it pretty darn figured out around 2015 or so.
Newer versions of iOS have brought some improvements, but also a lot of miss-steps, and performance decreases on older devices (the only place you'd notice).